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That Parents May: Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that parents may the school is entering into a partnership, and that parents may the parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'.See Also Part Of Parents Should:We believe that there is a central need to tackle parents' fears and to demonstrate to them the importance of the part of parents should they could and should be playing: it is in the hands of teachers to do this. Where teachers approach parents believing that children's learning will actually improve if their parents help them, and believing also that parents are keen to give this help, they find them ready and willing to co-operate. Teacher attitudes toward parent involvement are already changing fast and many schools have proved themselves able to cope with the problems of time and organization necessary for such involvement.
There are other possible focuses which can be used to bring parents and teachers together in secondary schools. Discussion groups held for parents can explore the actual subjects taught, as well as more general matters, and sometimes parents can be involved directly in their children's homework. Ebbutt and Barber,30 for example, asked parents to help their first-year children with passages for comprehension covering a range of school subjects, which formed part of parents should of a structured programme to help children who had reading difficulties.
On The Other Hand See Talk To Parents ':The prospect of a large meeting can in any case be rather daunting for some parents, who would prefer the chance to talk to parents ' informally with their child's teachers. But they would like such a talk to parents ' to be by invitation, so that there is no danger of their being construed as 'pushing' - a very common fear among parents. The timing of meetings and appointments to suit the school can also be a problem for working parents and those looking after small children.
Yet if we look back at the typical remarks we quoted, what stands out is that there is little or no actual hostility in them, or for that matter indifference; and in fact we know from our own experience that underlying the anxieties and misunderstandings there is a great deal of potential goodwill on both sides. Given time to talk to parents ', in the right setting, parents and teachers can usually find a way to break down the barriers between them, through their common interest in individual children. Unfortu¬nately, though, time to talk to parents ' with parents does not figure noticeably in the timetables of many schools. |
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